Corrosion performance of austenitic stainless steel bipolar plates for Nafion- and room-temperature ionic-liquid-based PEMFCs

Open Fuels and Energy Science Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-52

  Mele, Claudio ^a   Bozzini, Benedetto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

AISI 304; Bipolar plate; Corrosion; Electroreflectance; Ionic liquid; PEMFC; Spectroellipsometry

Indexed keywords

AISI 304; ANODIC POTENTIALS; APPLIED POTENTIALS; BIPOLAR PLATES; CORROSION CURRENT; CORROSION PERFORMANCE; DAMAGE POTENTIAL; ELECTROREFLECTANCE; IN-SITU; INTERCONNECT MATERIALS; OXIDATIVE ATTACK; PITTING POTENTIAL; POTENTIODYNAMICS; POTENTIOSTATICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; SPECTROELLIPSOMETRY; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE DAMAGES; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL; DAMAGE DETECTION; IONIC LIQUIDS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); REFLECTION; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY;

CORROSION;

EID: 84865097594     PISSN: 1876973X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1876973X01205010047     Document Type: Article

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